“The child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth” UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Pope Francis on the “guideline we need for this point in history.”

Pope Francis in the letter to the Argentinian Bishops says
that the “guideline we need for this point in history,” is a document called
the Apareceida which deals among other issues with Eucharistic coherence and is very clear that
legislators cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act with deeds
or words against the commandments, particularly when abortion, euthanasia, and
other grave crimes against life and family are encouraged.

Paragraph 436 reads as follows:

“436: We hope that legislators, heads of government, and
health professionals, conscious of the dignity of human life and of the
rootedness of the family in our peoples, will defend and protect it from the
abominable crimes of abortion and euthanasia; that is their responsibility.
Hence, in response to government laws and provisions that are unjust in the
light of faith and reason, conscientious objection should be encouraged. We
must adhere to “eucharistic coherence,” that is, be conscious that they cannot
receive holy communion and at the same time act with deeds or words against the
commandments, particularly when abortion, euthanasia, and other grave crimes
against life and family are encouraged. This responsibility weighs particularly
over legislators, heads of governments, and health professionals.”

This has serious implications for Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda
Kenny, who has just introduced draft abortion legislation and for all Catholic
TDs who will vote on the issue.

Pat Buckley

I was born in Galway, Ireland where I attended first Scoil Fhursa and then St Ignatius (Jesuit) College. My family moved to Cork in 1960 and I spent my last year at the Christian Brothers College in Mc Curtain street Cork (CBC).

I came to Dublin in 1963 where I met and married my wife Philomena. We have lived in Dublin since then and have been blessed with seven children and 17 grandchildren (so far). When I finished school I studied architecture through the professional institutions and I am a retired Member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (MRIAI). I also hold a BSc. in psychology and political philosophy.

I currently lobby pro-life and pro-family issues at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and occasionally at the European Parliament and Council of Europe. I am a member of the pro-life, pro-family coalition operating within the international institutions and I am a consultant to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children SPUC on UN and related matters.

Between 1978-85, as a married couple Philomena and I were involved in the presentation of Marriage Encounter Weekends and pre-marriage courses. We also represented Worldwide Marriage Encounter on a committee for the family in the Dublin Archdiocese. Between 1985-1988. I was appointed National Secretary and then President of the Catholic Secondary Schools Parents Association (CSPA). I have been lobbying pro-life issue at the UN for upwards of 12 years.

I am a past President of the National Association of Catholic Families (NACF)

Publications:

1997: Anthology of pro-life verse

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